Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani

Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani (died 2 January 2016) was an al-Qaeda member from Saudi Arabia.

Biography
Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani grew up in the al-Bahah Province of southern Saudi Arabia, and he studied law at the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University before becoming an imam. al-Zahrani later became a leader of al-Qaeda, a dangerous Islamic terrorist group that carried out some attacks in Saudi Arabia against Shi'ites and foreigners. On 5 August 2004 he was arrested in Abha on charges of terrorism, a blow to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. On 2 January 2016 al-Zahrani and 46 other people accused of terrorism were executed, the same day as the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a pro-Iran activist.